African American female athletes are a unique and often understudied group within the realm of
intercollegiate athletics. Their race, gender, and athletic status interact to impact their academic
and social experiences in ...

This essay seeks to challenge the absence of the Arab world within the emerging literature on “the Global Cold War,” which considers the Arab-Israeli conflict and thus Arab history to be driven by exceptional circumstances. ...

Since 1994, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)--a research organization based in Culver City, California--has studied the U.S. landscape, using multidisciplinary research, information processing and interpretive ...

This paper explores the connections and dissensions between two fields of thought, which
scholars rarely discuss alongside each other: Afro-Pessimism and Queer Negativity. Through
interweaving Baldwin’s late nonfiction and ...

John Saunders Chase (1925-2012) was an African American architect in Houston, Texas. As a student and architect, he broke a color line, becoming the first black graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and later to ...

On the basis of historical and stylistic evidence, I argue that Josquin des Prez’s motet Qui velatus facie was a response to St. Bonaventure’s canonization in 1482. In fact, my research supports the claims of Andrea Adami ...

Andy Coolquitt makes objects and environments that exist in symbiosis with human relationships. During the 1990s, his life and work revolved around an expansive studio/artist commune/performance space/living sculpture/party ...

To the outside observer today, Nigeria is a state whose political troubles are sunk in its oil wells. Yet in truth the difficulties facing Nigeria are reflective of colonialism’s alteration of Nigerian society, and in order ...

This work aims to improve the capability of accurate information extraction from high-dimensional data, with a specific neural learning paradigm, the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). The SOM is an unsupervised learning algorithm ...

The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with ...

This project examines the connection between music and text in works for solo voice
and vihuela de mano by sixteenth century composer Alonso Mudarra. In addition to
outlining the vihuela’s history as an important, yet ...